Two Cars Vandalized

No property was taken from either car parked at 286 N. Federal Highway, according to the police report.

Between 7 and 7:20 p.m., vandals broke into the first car by cutting through the white convertible top. They entered the second car by smashing the left rear window, police said.

PURSE TAKEN FROM UNLOCKED HOUSE

The front door of a house in the 200 block of Northeast Seventh Street, left open for the family dog, apparently was the means of access of a burglar who stole $80 from a purse on the kitchen counter, police said Wednesday.

The resident told police she recalled seeing her purse on the counter late Tuesday night. Hours later, the resident and her neighbors noticed papers and cosmetics strewn on their lawns. When she went back into the kitchen, she saw her purse was gone.

The contents of the purse were recovered, police said, except for the $80 in cash.A house in the Coco Woods development was burglarized, with thieves taking $60 cash while residents slept in their home west of Delray Beach, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff`s Office report.

Before 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, someone went through four purses in the kitchen and two bedrooms of a house on the 6100 block of Winding Brook Way, the report saod.

Thieves sliced a patio screen door and walked through an unlocked glass door to get inside, reports said.Bruce Leon McCray, 37, of the 400 block of Northwest 11th Avenue, was charged with burglary Wednesday after police found him inside Poinciana School about 4:15 a.m., police said.

Police responded to an alarm at the school, 1300 NW First St., and found McCray inside, police said.Camera equipment and other items valued at $7,132 were stolen Tuesday in a daytime house burglary on South E Street, police said.

The thief entered the house by forcing open a window, police said.

Among the possessions taken were a color television, a video cassette recorder, a $990 camera and a $880 zoom lens, police said.